page_title: Camberwell railway station, Melbourne
hierarchical_section_title: Camberwell railway station, Melbourne
caption_attribution_description: Burke Road end of w:Camberwell railway station, Melbourne, looking east
context_page_description: Camberwell railway station is located on the Lilydale, Belgrave and Alamein lines in Victoria, Australia. It serves the eastern Melbourne suburb of Camberwell, opening on 3 April 1882.
  It was the terminus of its own line for a few months, until the railway was extended to Lilydale. When the first section of the Outer Circle line opened in 1891, a new station was built at East Camberwell to provide an interchange. However, the Outer Circle line quickly failed, with a number of sections closing, and by 1898, only the Ashburton line remained, and trains for Ashburton began to depart from Camberwell.
  The station was demolished, and the current Edwardian style station opened in 1919, when the railway lines were placed in a cutting. This was done partly to remove the steep gradient from Auburn, to the west. This length of track was so steep that steam locomotives could not pull a fully laden train between the two stations, requiring peak hour trains to be separated. The locomotive would bring one set of carriages to Camberwell, then return for the other set, causing significant delays.
context_section_description: Camberwell railway station is located on the Lilydale, Belgrave and Alamein lines in Victoria, Australia. It serves the eastern Melbourne suburb of Camberwell, opening on 3 April 1882.
  It was the terminus of its own line for a few months, until the railway was extended to Lilydale. When the first section of the Outer Circle line opened in 1891, a new station was built at East Camberwell to provide an interchange. However, the Outer Circle line quickly failed, with a number of sections closing, and by 1898, only the Ashburton line remained (later extended to Alamein), and trains for Ashburton began to depart from Camberwell.
  The station was demolished, and the current Edwardian style station opened in 1919, when the railway lines were placed in a cutting. This was done partly to remove the steep gradient from Auburn, to the west. This length of track was so steep that steam locomotives could not pull a fully laden train between the two stations, requiring peak hour trains to be separated. The locomotive would bring one set of carriages to Camberwell, then return for the other set, causing significant delays.
  The signal box at Camberwell was the first one in Victoria to have push-button signalling installed, the new technology being commissioned in November 1964. Immediately east of the station the, Alamein line diverges south, with a flyover carrying the southbound line over the Lilydale and Belgrave lines.
  It was upgraded to a Premium station on 27 April 1996. In 1997, four stabling sidings were built on the site of the former goods yard. They were built to replace sidings removed at Jolimont Yard. The stabling sidings were first proposed by the Metropolitan Transit Authority (The Met) in the mid 1980s.
caption: Eastbound view in July 2008
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